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The above are members of the CARTEL that trades on ebay, they are all big collectors with large feedback, if you received a message that a pit check you

have won on ebay is wrong, then you can be sure that the sender of the message is a member of the CARTEL, there aim is to keep prices as high as possible so

that there collections maintain there value.

If you get a message from one of the members, these are the questions to ask:

Which pit check are you referring to.

Proof of statement made.

Did they get the pay-pal name right.

Did they get the sellers Town/City right.

They may refer you to a Mining-Memorabilia club, association, there idea is that

you should join this club, it is not worth it, the cost is £10 to join for this you get a

badge value £1.50 and a newsletter once a year with information that is freely

available on the internet also they will offer you pit checks at a higher cost than ebay

Remember the CARTEL will look after its own, anyone not a member of the

CARTEL is an enemy.

This page has been set up to show how this man operates on ebay and outside of ebay.
First lets look at the Lamps that Charles says are genuine miners lamps


 
These Lamps are all fake, the first two are made from parts of other Lamps
The second two are made for the classroom they are used to teach children
the working of the Davy Lamp, The fuel base of the Lamps is to small for use
in a coal mine, would not last a full working shift, Notice how the lamps have
been polished up to sell them to the unwary.



Look at the first lamp how it is nicely polished ,made by a local metal company
in Wakefield , The second one is a Dey lamp that was made in INDIA, ALL
these lamps are the property of  Charles Birdsall and he has tried to sell them
as the real old British Miners Lamp, All are FAKE.

Now Charles L Birdsall and his Pit checks
These are charles Birdsalls Pit Checks


The Chanters Pit Checks are not Pit Checks, they are Lampost I.D. Tags
put inside the Lampost to identify each lampost as being looked after
and supplied by Chanters Colliery with Electricity,
now we can see the knowledge that Charles has on mining
related Lamps and Pit checks.

 
        This pit check Birdsall tride to sell at the begining of April 2010, the check is
a FAKE you can see how this check is made by going to MAPLINS electronics in
GOOGLE, also put in etching copper and brass.

Miners badges sold by the CARTEL members some dodgy most modern Re-strike